Bumblebees Show Off Their Own Puzzle-Solving Culture - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-show-off-their-own-puzzle-solving-culture/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
#bees #nature #science
On my desktop, #Mastodon works smoothly, but on my phone, it’s a hassle, and started getting dramatically worse a few days ago.
So I am looking into #app choices to try, on iOS. But there’s a lot! Does anyone have any advice about which I should use or avoid? I see #ivory , #metatext , #icecubes , #mammoth , #tootle , #tooot , #mastoot , #tusker … I do NOT have the energy to try all of that, so any opinions would be useful, please.
22° halo around the #moon captured with #iphone in #losangeles
I think that’s what it is 🤔???
Re: “Scientists call them 22-degree halos. They bear this name because the radius of the circle around the sun or moon is approximately 22 degrees.
There’s an old weather saying: ring around the moon means rain soon. There’s truth to this saying, because high cirrus clouds often come before a storm. Notice in these photos that the sky looks fairly clear. After all, you can see the sun or moon. And yet halos are a sign of high, thin cirrus clouds drifting 20,000 feet (6 km) or more above our heads.”
https://earthsky.org/space/what-makes-a-halo-around-the-moon/
#nature #photo #photography #naturephotography #sky #moon #space #science #astronomy #art
How the Washington Post verified its journalists on #Mastodon. https://washpost.engineering/heres-how-the-washington-post-verified-its-journalists-on-mastodon-7b5dbc96985c
#socialmedia #privacy #investigations #warrants #abortion #meta #facebook #google #police #userdata #pharmacies
Police getting help from social media to prosecute people seeking abortions.
To have a viral post on Mastodon is to be confronted with a long series of people asking the exact same question or providing the same “well actually” response, for days, because of the limits of federation. They simply can’t see those other replies. Sometimes they see *no* ofher replies, if they’re on a tiny server.
The experience isn’t great! As with customer service, it can be hard to remember that this isn’t actually the same person over and over again.
To have a viral post on Mastodon is to be confronted with a long series of people asking the exact same question or providing the same “well actually” response, for days, because of the limits of federation. They simply can’t see those other replies. Sometimes they see *no* ofher replies, if they’re on a tiny server.
The experience isn’t great! As with customer service, it can be hard to remember that this isn’t actually the same person over and over again.
The physics suggest that a carbon capture technology that uses the ocean might be the only way to make carbon capture economical. There's just much more CO2 per liter of water than per liter of air, and ocean surface is an enormous, effective atmospheric CO2 capture mechanism. So I'm keeping my eye on technologies like this https://medium.com/predict/mit-may-have-just-developed-the-ultimate-climate-technology-37c10791e69b
Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as #Ohio crash incites scrutiny to industry
Exclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio #derailment prompts hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules
Over 9.7 million people using Mastodon now. It is hosted on over 22,000 servers, but like with email, everyone can communicate with everyone else.
Since no one person or company owns those servers, no one person or company can buy them or break them. #Mastodon #TwitterMigration
Anti trans laws
You don’t have to be a trans ally to recognize how horrible a state-forced transition would be. Imagine how horrified you would feel if your body now were slowly changing into the wrong gender from being pumped full of the wrong chemicals, and you were forbidden to do anything to stop it. Doctors that could help you turn away.
Would it help any to know that your own glands were the source of the chemicals? I can’t imagine that would make me feel one bit better!
NOTE TO SELF
The following is the list of QOTO administrators/moderators.
@freemo
@khird
@trinsec
@barefootstache
Note: The account @QOTO listed as the administrator is NOT an actively monitored account.
Look, folks, if we want more people to leave the hellsite, we need more content like this 😂
https://twitter.com/kairyssdal/status/1630956242020749313?s=20
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“But two senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump’s permission to search his property…”
#news #FBI #documents #MAL #MarALago #nationalsecurity #DOJ #garland #topsecret
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
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#BLM
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